Claudia Folska, Westword cover girl and a candidate for the RTD Board of Directors, has a variety of interests. In college, she started a nonprofit called Eyecycle that pairs sighted people and blind people on tandem bicycles. After college, she biked from Pakistan to China. This past spring, she earned a dual doctorate from the University of Colorado. And she once groped Arnold Schwarzenegger -- a feat, she jokes, she got away with because she is blind.

Now, in addition to running for RTD, Folska has produced one episode of a cooking show she hopes will become a staple on Rocky Mountain PBS. Called Cooking in the Dark, the show's title is a play on words meant to point out that most people don't know where their food comes from while also lightheartedly acknowledging that Folska can't see.

The show is informative, if a bit rough around the edges. The premise is that Folska visits a Colorado farm, learns how to cook a meal using that farm's ingredients with the help of a local chef, and then prepares the meal at home.